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pale blush-colour, several together upon very 

 ioiia; peduncles : and there is a succession of 

 them iluring ail the summer months. 



There is a variety with a dark circle in the 

 middle of the leaves. 



The second species has a very short fleshy 

 stalk, dividing near the ground into several 

 heads, each having many leaves, on separate 

 footstalks from the heads ; they are soft and 

 downy, and have a strong scent like aniseed. 

 From tiiese heads come out several slender stalks, 

 near a foot in length, prostrate, with rounder 

 leaves than iliose near the root, but of the same 

 texture and odour : the flowers are produced 

 from the side of these stalks, three, four, or five 

 -standing together upon slender peduncles ; they 

 are white, but being small they make little ap- 

 pearance. 



The third has the stem prostrate, four-corner-' 

 ed, smooth ; as is also the whole plant, which is 

 biennial, sendinsr out a great nainbcr of very 

 slender trailing stalks, extending a foot and half 

 in length : the leaves are small, marked with 

 lines; the peduncles are capillary, with two or 

 three small flowers, of a pale flesh-colour. They 

 continue in succession all the sunnner. 



The fourth species is an annual or rather bien- 

 nial plant, with branching stalks near a foot 

 high : the lower leaves stand upon long foot- 

 stalks, but those on the upper part sit close to 

 the stalks : the flowers stand upon naked pe- 

 duncles, which proceed from the side of the 

 stalks, on the side opposite to the leaves : they 

 grow three or four together upon short separate 

 pedicels : they are of a pale flesh-colour, and 

 appear in July. 



The fifth has a thick fleshy knotted stalk, 

 rising about two feet high, sending out a few 

 slender fleshy branches, thinly set with leaves, 

 which on the lov\erpart of the stalk are pelioled, 

 but above sessile : the flowers are jiroduced in 

 small clusters at the ends of the branches: the 

 petals are narrow and white, making no great 

 appearance ; they continue in succession most 

 part of the summer. 



The sixth species flowers in May, and con- 

 tinues to do so during most of the summer 

 months : the seeds ripen in this climate. It is 

 a native of the South-west coast of Africa. 



'I'iie seventh has a round fleshy stalk with 

 swelling knots at the joints, rising about three 

 feet high, and sending out several irregular 

 smooth branches : the leaves are thinly disposed, 

 smooth, fleshy, gray, ending obtusely, and 

 standing on short footstalks : the flowers four 

 or five on a peduncle; the petals dark- purple, 

 having a very agreeable seent in the evening ; 

 it flowers most part of the summer. 



The eighth species has a shrubby stem, cover- 

 ed with an ash-coloured baik, branched, two 

 tcct high : the leaves are numerous, alternate, 

 nearly equal to the petioles, very deeply five- 

 clctt: the segments pinnate and bipim.ate, 

 linear : stipules wide, acuminate and shrivel- 

 ling: the peduncles axillary, solitary, with one, 

 two, or three flowers : involucre generally five- 

 cleft, shrivelling. The whole plant has a stinng 

 smell of turpentine. The leaves in the youno- 

 plants are often three inches long ; but in old ^nes 

 only one third of the size, and more numerous. 

 It has the name Radula, from the rouirh rasp- 

 like surface of its leaves. It flowers from 

 March to July. 



There are tv/o varieties, a larger and a smaller : 

 and as it is readily raised from seeds, it afi'ords 

 many seminal varieties. 



I'he ninth rises with an upright shrubby stalk 

 seven or eight feet high, sending out several side 

 branches with large, angular, rough leaves, on 

 short footstalks : the flowers are produced in 

 large panicles (umbels) at the ends of tlie 

 branches : the two upper petals, nvhich are 

 pretty large, turn upwards, and are finely ^varie- 

 gated ; but the three under ones are very small, 

 and, being bent back, are screened from sio-ht, 

 unless the flower be viewed near. It flowers 

 from April to July. 

 _ The tenth species rises with a soft shrubby 

 stem to the height of eight or ten feet, sending 

 out several branches, which are generally ereet": 

 the leaves of a thick substance, and a lucid 

 green, on pretty long footstalks, covered with 

 soft hairs on their under side ; the flowers 

 are in loose bunches (umbe's), on long, stiflT, 

 axillary peduncles ; the corolla bright scarlet: 

 the flowers make a fine appearance, and there 

 is a succession of them during all the suninier 

 months. 



The eleventh rises with a shrubby stalk four 

 or five feet high, and divides into a great num- 

 ber of irregular branches, so as to form a large 

 bush, frequently eight or ten feet in height : the 

 leaves are indented on the edge in several obtuse 

 segments, cut into short teeth ; there is a pur- " 

 plish curved zone in form of a horse-shoe, from 

 one side of the base to the other, correspond- 

 ing with the border; and when gently rubbed, 

 the leaves have a scent like scalded apjjlcs : the 

 flowers are produced in pretty close bunches, on 

 axillary peduncles, five or six inches in lenoth, 

 coming out towards the ends of the branches ; 

 they arc of a reddish puiple colour, and con-" 

 tinue in succession great part of the sum- 

 mer. 



There is a variety wiih fine variegated leaves, 

 and the flowers vary much in colour from 

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